Questions and Answers
What does 'site' refer to in geography?
It is the physical and human transformed characteristics of a place.
What is 'sequent occupance'?
The notion that successive societies leave their cultural imprints on a place.
What does 'situation' refer to in geography?
Relative location.
The law of geography states that everything is related to everything else.
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What does 'accessibility' address in geography?
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What is 'connectivity' in geography?
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What is 'spatial diffusion'?
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What is 'relocation diffusion'?
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What is 'expansion diffusion'?
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What are the types of expansion diffusion?
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What is 'hierarchical diffusion'?
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What is 'contagious diffusion'?
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What is 'stimulus diffusion'?
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What is 'spatial distribution'?
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What does 'concentration' mean in geography?
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What is 'density'?
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What does 'spatial interaction' involve?
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What does 'globalization' refer to?
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What is 'complementarity' in geography?
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Study Notes
Concepts of Place and Interrelations
- Site: Refers to the physical and human transformed characteristics of a place, including climate, topography, soil, water sources, vegetation, and elevation.
- Sequent Occupance: Successive societies leave cultural imprints on a location, contributing to the cumulative cultural landscape.
Location and Geography
- Situation: Also known as relative location; important for understanding centrality or isolation of a place, helping to locate unfamiliar areas by comparison.
- Basic Law of Geography: Everything is related spatially; stronger relationships exist among nearby entities.
Accessibility and Connectivity
- Accessibility: Measures the ease or difficulty of overcoming time and space barriers between places; relates to connectivity.
- Connectivity: Tangible (like streets) and intangible (like ideologies) connections that interrelate places or people.
Diffusion Processes
- Spatial Diffusion: The spread of ideas or items from a center (hearth) to distant points.
- Relocation Diffusion: Ideas or innovations are carried to new locations by migrants, often during migration.
- Expansion Diffusion: Movement of phenomena from one place to neighboring areas, remaining in the original location.
Types of Expansion Diffusion
- Hierarchical Diffusion: Spread of an idea from larger, more important places to smaller, less important locations; originates at a node of innovation.
- Contagious Diffusion: Rapid spread of a characteristic throughout a population, resembling disease propagation across time and space.
- Stimulus Diffusion: Underlying principles of an idea spread, despite the original characteristic not spreading (e.g., Apple's mouse concept).
Patterns and Spatial Distribution
- Spatial Distribution: Arrangement of phenomena across Earth's surface; population clusters in hospitable areas.
- Concentration: Refers to the extent of feature spread in an area; clustered (close together) vs dispersed (far apart).
- Density: Number of items within a defined area, remains constant regardless of distribution; example: 100 people in a 10-square-mile area results in a density of 10.
Interactions and Globalization
- Spatial Interaction: Involves flow and movement between places.
- Globalization: Increasing interconnectedness of the world, affecting social, cultural, political, and economic processes; exemplified by corporations like Apple, Facebook, and Coke.
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Description
Explore the key concepts of interrelations between places and site characteristics in this quiz on AP Human Geography. Enhance your understanding of how humans transform physical sites and the importance of sequent occupance in shaping the human landscape.
